Advancing Leaders in Inclusive Astronomy and STEM

自2001年以来，科学家工程师教育研究所（ISEE），总部设在加州圣克鲁斯大学，进行了一系列的专业发展计划（PDP）讲习班。 这些准备科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）专业人员，主要是研究生和博士后研究人员，成为更好的教育工作者和导师，并学习包容性的做法，这将有助于增加在STEM中代表性不足的群体的参与。 该奖项将继续这些活动，并将支持初步研究如何最好地扩大其影响，以及如何为校友提供支持，因为他们执行在讲习班上学到的战略。 每年有400到500名新的本科生间接受益于每年39名新的PDP校友。目前的ISEE校友社区包括650多名专业人士，其中大多数人继续保持积极的联系，其中许多人寻求进一步的培训机会。 天文台和行业专业人员也参加这些方案，这有助于提供更训练有素和多样化的劳动力，特别是在夏威夷。 该项目的目标是通过以下方式扩大ISEE的影响：1）促进为包容性教学和指导做好准备的科学家，工程师和技术人员; 2）促进ISEE校友成为公平和包容性的领导者; 3）发展能力和结构，以实现国家领导网络。 这些目标将通过继续PDP讲习班和已经实施的指导方案来实现。 他们还将制定机制，以帮助这些计划的校友，因为他们成为STEM教育的领导者。

Since 2001, the Institute for Scientist & Engineer Educators (ISEE), headquartered at the University of California Santa Cruz, has conducted a series of Professional Development Program (PDP) workshops. These prepare Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) professionals, primarily graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, to become better educators and mentors and to learn inclusive practices that will help increase the participation of underrepresented groups in STEM. This award will continue these activities and will support preliminary studies into how best to expand their impact and how to provide support for their alumni as they implement the strategies learned in the workshops. Four to five hundred new undergraduates per year indirectly benefit from the 39 new PDP alumni each year. The current community of ISEE alumni includes over 650 professionals, most of whom continue to stay in active contact with each other and many of whom seek further training opportunities. Observatory and industry professionals also participate in these programs, which help provide a more highly-trained and diverse workforce, particularly in Hawaii. The goals of this project are to expand ISEE's impact by: 1) advancing scientists, engineers, and technologists prepared for inclusive teaching and mentoring; 2) advancing ISEE alumni as leaders in equity and inclusion; and 3) developing capacity and structure to enablea national leadership network. These will be achieved by continuing the PDP workshops and the mentoring programs already in place. They will also develop mechanisms to assist the alumni of these programs as they become leaders in STEM education.